-age

See also: age, Age, âge, Agë, Åge, and âgé

English

Etymology

From Middle English -age, from Old French -age, from Latin -āticum. Cognates include French -age, Italian -aggio, Portuguese -agem, Spanish -aje, Romanian -aj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪdʒ/, /ədʒ/ (earlier loans and when attached to any non-French roots)
• IPA^(key): /ɑʒ/ (more recent loanwords from French such as massage, mirage, barrage, etc.)
• IPA^(key): /eɪdʒ/ (obsolete)

Suffix

-age

1. forming nouns with the sense of collection or appurtenance.

   ‎word + ‎-age → ‎wordage

   Synonyms: -ery, -ing

2. forming nouns indicating a process, action, or a result

   ‎block + ‎-age → ‎blockage

   ‎marry + ‎-age → ‎marriage

   ‎slip + ‎-age → ‎slippage

   ‎shrink + ‎-age → ‎shrinkage

3. forming nouns of a state or relationship

   ‎bond + ‎-age → ‎bondage

   ‎marry + ‎-age → ‎marriage

4. forming nouns indicating a place

   ‎orphan + ‎-age → ‎orphanage

   ‎hermit + ‎-age → ‎hermitage

5. forming nouns indicating a charge, toll, or fee

   ‎post + ‎-age → ‎postage

   ‎broker + ‎-age → ‎brokerage

   ‎cork + ‎-age → ‎corkage

6. forming nouns indicating a rate

   ‎percent + ‎-age → ‎percentage

   ‎mile + ‎-age → ‎mileage

7. forming nouns of a unit of measure.

   ‎volt + ‎-age → ‎voltage

   ‎foot + ‎-age → ‎footage

   ‎tonne + ‎-age → ‎tonnage

   ‎hour + ‎-age → ‎hourage

Derived terms

English words suffixed with -age

Translations

collection or appurtenance

• French: -age (fr) m

• Portuguese: -agem (pt) f

process, action or result

• Hungarian: -ás, -és
• Middle English: -ing

• Portuguese: -agem (pt) f, -ção (pt) f, -mento (pt) m

state or relationship

• Portuguese: -agem (pt) f, -ção (pt) f

place

• Portuguese: -ato m

charge, toll or fee

• Middle English: -age

• Portuguese: -ágio m

rate

• Portuguese: -agem (pt) f

Anagrams

• EGA, Ega, G. E. A.

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Dutch

Etymology

From French -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ʒə/

• Audio

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Suffix

-age

1. Creates nouns from verbs and from other nouns. It denotes:
   1. action

      ‎kijven (“to altercate, dispute, wrangle”) + ‎-age → ‎kijvage (“squabbling”)

      ‎lekken (“to leak”) + ‎-age → ‎lekkage (“leakage”)

   2. collectivity

      ‎tuig (“rig”) + ‎-age → ‎tuigage (“rigging”)

   3. result of an action

      ‎stellen + ‎-age → ‎stellage

Derived terms

Dutch words suffixed with -age

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French

Etymology

From Middle French -age, from Old French -age, from Latin -āticum, greatly extended from words like rivage and voyage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʒ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑʒ

Suffix

-age

1. Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X".
2. Forming nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X".
3. (rare) Forming collective nouns.

Usage notes

• Although the historical suffix has had many applications (e.g. family relationships, locations), it is now restricted primarily to the sense of "action of Xing", and many terms now have little to no connection with the most common uses. This is especially notable of those descended from actual Latin words in -aticus such as fromage and voyage.

Descendants

• → Dutch: -age
• → Romanian: -aj

See also

French words suffixed with -age

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German

Alternative forms

• -asche

Etymology

From French -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːʒə/

Suffix

-age

1. Creates nouns from verbs and from other nouns.

Derived terms

German words suffixed with -age

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Japanese

Romanization

-age

1. Rōmaji transcription of あげ

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old French -age, from Latin -āticum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-ˈaːdʒ(ə)/

Suffix

-age

1. Forms nouns indicating a right or relationship.
2. Forms nouns indicating a charge, toll, or fee.
3. (not productive) Used in nouns taken from Old French indicating actions, results, groups, etc.

Derived terms

Middle English words suffixed with -age

Descendants

• English: -age
• Scots: -age

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French -age, from Latin -āticum.

Suffix

-age

1. forms nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X"
2. forms nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X"

Derived terms

Middle French words suffixed with -age

Descendants

• French: -age

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Occitan

Suffix

-age

1. (Mistralian) Alternative form of -atge

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Old French

Alternative forms

• -aige
• -aje (rare)

Etymology

From Latin -āticum.

Suffix

-age

1. forms nouns with the sense of 'action or result of'
2. forms nouns with the sense of 'state of being'

Derived terms

Old French words suffixed with -age

Descendants

• Middle French: -age
  • French: -age
    • → Dutch: -age
    • → Romanian: -aj
• → Middle English: -age
  • English: -age
  • Scots: -age
• → Medieval Latin: -āgium